I discovered electronic music basically by accident when I was about 42 years old.
I found myself at AfrikaBurn, my first ever festival, and honestly — I didn't like it. I didn't like the music. I didn't like the surroundings. All of it felt wrong. I felt so lost. All the electronic music was just noise to me. I didn't get it. I wanted to leave.
Then a friend said, "You need to take MDMA." And so I did.
And then — suddenly — something happened. From one second to the next, I felt the music calling me to a stage nearby. When I arrived there, I felt the beats and the melody in my whole system. In my whole body. My heart doors opened wide. Suddenly I could read the music. I could understand what it tells me. I really got it. I realized: that's why everyone is here. That is why people worship DJs.
I naturally assumed that all electronic music must be this good. And so I started to chase that feeling. I went to festival after festival. But I noticed… it didn't happen again. Or much too rarely.
I went to 40 festivals or more within 3 years. Most of the time, the music didn't move me the way it did the first time. It didn't take me. I couldn't let go. And I started to think: maybe something's wrong with me. Maybe I'm too picky.
But then I realized… no. It's not me. It's the music.
One day I had this insight: when a track is good, it's always good. It will always move me. No matter what mood I'm in. So it's not about me. It's about the music. And the thing that makes the difference — I found — is intention.
Intention.
Music that knows what it's doing. Music that speaks to the soul. Music that moves the hips, the feet, the heart.
This is what makes electronic music different. Through rhythm, repetition, melody and bass, it has the power to bring us back to our core — to connect us to something deeper, to each other, and to something larger than ourselves.
When it is great, it lets us forget our names. Suddenly, we are no longer separate people trying to dance.
We are music. We are movement. We are energy.
If you know this feeling, you know why this movement exists.
Intentional Electro is here to make this experience less random. To help create festivals where you can trust the music to take you there — into the zone, into the body, into the moment.
We invite DJs, producers, festivals and dancers to ask a better question:
Does this music actually move us? Does it carry intention? Does it know what it is doing?
Let's make this happen together.